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Aunt Sally, or, The cross the way of freedom : A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan.

Title
Aunt Sally, or, The cross the way of freedom : A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan.
Publication
Cincinnati : American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858.

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TextUse in library Sc Rare 326.92-A (Aunt Sally)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors
  • Lovie, Henri
  • Wevill, George
  • American Reform Tract and Book Society.
  • C.F. O'Driscoll & Co., stereotyper.
Description
vii [i.e., vi], 9-216, [8] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 16 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Slave narratives.
  • Publishers' catalogs – Ohio – Cincinnati.
Note
  • Author's preface dated at Brooklyn, N.Y., May, 1858.
  • "Copyright secured to the American Reform Tract and Book Society, Cincinnati, Ohio. Stereotyped by C.F. O'Driscoll & Co."--verso of title page.
  • Error in paging: page vi misnumbered vii.
  • "The portraits in this book have been engraved from daguerreotypes"--page iv. Wood-engraved plates illustrated by [Henri] Lovie and engraved by [George] Wevill.
  • "Catalogue of publications of the American Reform Tract and Book Society."--[7] pages at end (last page, page [8], is blank).
Indexed In (note)
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc Rare 326.92-A (Aunt Sally)
LCCN
15023529
OCLC
  • 2047422
  • NYPGR2047422-B
Title
Aunt Sally, or, The cross the way of freedom : A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan.
Imprint
Cincinnati : American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 724A
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-A (accession no. B571130) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Added Author
American Reform Tract and Book Society.
Lovie, Henri, illustrator.
Wevill, George, engraver.
C.F. O'Driscoll & Co., stereotyper.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 326.92-A (Aunt Sally)
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